Established in 2012, Frames Cinema Journal is an annual, peer reviewed, online academic journal which aims to provide a space for trailblazing research by scholars of film, media and screen studies. 

Current Issue

Vol. 22 (2025): (Re)Locations: Transformations of Place in Film

Published: 2025-09-30

Introduction to the Issue

Letter from the Editors

Yuanxin Chu, Rachel Ng, Camila Contreras-Langlois
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Feature Articles

Berlin as It Was: Archival Footage and Lost Urban Spaces in Early Postwar German Cinema

Nancy Wilson
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The Logic of Disorientation: Exploring Space in Albert Serra’s Afternoons of Solitude

Alexandra Semenova
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So That You Can Live (1981) and the Crisis of the Welsh Landscape

Oliver Dixon
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The “Empty Centre” of Paris: Logics of Exclusivity in the Tourist Romance

Harriet Idle
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Documentary Meets Art Project: Remembering Post-3.11 Territories in The Double Layered Town (Haruka Komori and Natsumi Seo, 2019)

Lucie Rydzek
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Geology of Ideas, Hydrology of Matter: Nature and Space in Abbas Kiarostami’s Cinema

Alborz Mahboobkhah
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Civilisational Melancholy and Temporalised Space in Contemplative Science Fiction Cinema: A Phenomenological Study of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Last and First Men

Marcell Bárdos
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P.O.V. Featurettes

Arboreal: Multispecies Industries of Forest Ecology and Documentary Filmmaking as Art of Attunement

Jenny Holt
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Look At This Mountain, It Was Once Fire: Film Interventions in Visualising Oil at Teapot Dome

Alan Smithee
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Film Featurettes

Blurring Space Across Film, Theatre and Virtual Reality: Zero-Calorie Restaurant (2023)

Xunnan Li
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Video Essays

Mapping Roma

Jessica Wax-Edwards
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Google Mapping Blow-Up: A Desktop Remediation

Cáit Murphy
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Book Reviews

Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger

Zoe Rogan
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Silent to Sound: British Cinema in Transition

Jacob Browne
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Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation

Camila Contreras-Langlois
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